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Please hop onto IRC.
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=couchdb
I get the impression this is going to take a lot of emails to work through.
On 13 Aug 2010, at 18:24, whimsica@aol.com wrote:
> I followed your instructions the apt-get upgrade couchdb
> after updating
> and starting couchdb I still get Futon on Apache CouchDB 0.10.0 in the lower right
corner when going to
> localhost:5984/_utils
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> curl http://127.0.0.1:5984/
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> couchdb welcome version .0.10.0
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> So what do I try next.
> Do I have to restart the computer?
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> Thanks,
> Dan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noah Slater <nslater@apache.org>
> To: user@couchdb.apache.org
> Sent: Fri, Aug 13, 2010 5:13 am
> Subject: Re: can't upgrade from .10 to .11
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> If you are on Ubuntu, you should run:
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> apt-get update
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> apt-get upgrade couchdb
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> That should upgrade it to the latest version for you.
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> You should be able to find documentation if you view this file:
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> /usr/share/doc/couchdb
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> Most notably, the Debian package I built that I believe Ubuntu may still mirror
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> from, versions the data directories so that a new install of CouchDB will use
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> its own database files, instead of overwriting your old ones.
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> If, however, you want to install from source, then you should check out the
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> README files in the tarball you downloaded. Google around for tutorials on how
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> to install CouchDB from source on Ubuntu. There are plenty, including the one I
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> wrote for the CouchDB book! If you have any specific problems getting a source
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> install to run, just post back to the mailing list. I would, however, recommend
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> that you try to get a package working for now.
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